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I originally started this journey with a decent Micro 4thirds camera – The Olympus Pen, which got stolen in my first month of travel! Depression soon wore off as I knew that my next purchase would be a serious upgrade to a professional camera. Fast forward 5 Months later and I’ve bought a Canon 7D + Sigma 50mm lens (with a Tokina 11-16mm on the way).

For anyone who is wondering that tripod is the TrekTech T-Pod which I can’t plug enough!
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This collection has been growing for quite some time now. Transport in all forms that I’ve shot while traveling in South America & Australasia. I’m excited about this series developing through Asia. Everything here is mostly from South America, with some bangers from New Zealand & dead cars from Oz thrown into the mix. ✈
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I’ve now set up my store ”TimeCapsule” over at Society6 – http://society6.com/TimeCapsule A fantastic site where you can buy and sell art prints. There’s so much good work up over there. I’m happy to have finally got some work up with them. More prints will be coming, once I can access all my work, which is stuck on my mac formatted hard drive (I can’t access anything on this Colombian Notebook!)
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The last place I visited in South America came out trumphs. Valparaíso is a graffiti lover’s paradise, it’s totally legal and its filled with some of the best I’ve seen in a long time. It’s a beautiful city, but also very very dark. I took more photos in one day than ever before, everything seemed photogenic here…and its run by dogs (see latest updates on All Dogs Go To Heaven, in South America…)
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Make no mistake, they are man’s best friend. All the dogs I photograph get put on Flickr, but the best ones go here…Added some golden oldies recently too. ✈ ✈ ✈
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The road to Santiago was a trcherous one. On our first attempt we drove 4hours from Mendoza to the boarder of Chile, but we had to turn back due to bad weather covering the roads. Our second attempt the following day eventually ended in success despite a 5 hour wait at the boarder with the fast and furious 5 + good friends to keep spirts high.
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I’ve just got to Santiago, Chile and I thought it was time to do a retrospective of some photos I took in Brazil around 5 months ago before I had really kicked things off with this photo blog. I stumbled across this photo of some kids in Rocinha favela in Rio de Janeiro. I didn’t really take notice of it at first, but now it’s one of my favorites from South America. It was taken with the Olympus Pen that got stolen shortly after in Manaus in north Brazil…
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The Salar de Uyuni is the largest salt desert in the world with an area of 12,000 km ². It is situated about 3650 meters high in the southwest region of Bolivia (Potosí) in the Altiplano of Bolivia, on the Andes.
40,000 years ago the desert was covered by prehistoric lakes Poopó and Uru Uru. – Wiki
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Lake Titicaca is a lake located on the border of Peru and Bolivia. It sits 3,811 m (12,500 ft) above sea level, making it the highest commercially navigable lake in the world. By volume of water, it is also the largest lake in South America. – Wiki
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Maras is a town in the Sacred Valley of the Incas, 40 kilometers north of Cuzco, in the Cuzco Region of Peru. The town is well known for its nearby salt evaporation ponds, in use since Inca times. The salt-evaporation ponds are up-slope, less than a kilometer west of the town.
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Moray is a town in Peru approximately 50 km Northwest of Cuzco near the town of Maras that has a large complex of unusual Inca ruins. These include most notably several enormous terraced circular depressions that were perhaps used to study the effects of different climatic conditions on crops. The depth of the pits (the largest is about 30 m deep) creates a temperature gradient of as much as 15° C between the top and the bottom. As with many other Inca sites, it also has a very sophisticated irrigation system for providing the plants with water. -Wikipedia
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